What does thomas mun say is the best way for a nation to gain economic power?

Thomas Mun advocated the effective principles of Mercantilism. He stated that a country can stay wealthy and achieve economic stability only when the exports increase than the imports.  

England faced a trade deficit which meant that England’s East India Company was importing large quantities of goods from India and sent precious metals in return which made the England’s economy fall in short of precious metals like silver.

He envisaged certain principles to stabilize the economy financially. He stated that a country has to increase the exports and reduce the export duties on the domestically produced goods. He also stated that wilderness and barren lands must be occupied for producing goods domestically than resorting to import them from other countries. Shipping and transportation should be based on English vessels and not by any other means.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

during the 20th century, the role of the vice president has evolved into more of an executive branch position. now, the vice president is usually seen as an integral part of a president's administration and presides over the senate only on ceremonial occasions or when a tie-breaking vote may be needed.